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Train reached destination 9 hrs late; passenger gets Rs 35,000 from Railways without proving financial lossA Jharkhand consumer commission has ordered South Eastern Railway and East Coast Railway to pay Rs 35,000 to a passenger whose train reache...
Train passengers, stop checking the platform board every 10 minutes: This little-known solution shows your coach position and even works without internetThe Where Is My Train app makes train journeys easier by offering real-time train tracking and a range of useful travel tools. It can work ...
Passengers robbed at gunpoint in reserved sleeper coach: NCDRC holds Railways responsible for safety lapse, orders Rs 20,000 compensationThe National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission found Railways deficient in service. Passengers were robbed at gunpoint inside a reserv...
Train ticket got cancelled by a stranger, woman with confirmed reservation arrested after boarding; Railways ordered to pay her Rs 2 lakhA woman with a confirmed train reservation was arrested and forced off the train at midnight after a stranger allegedly cancelled her ticke...
Delhi HC dismisses Railway Compensation claim after ticket found to have been bought hours after train's departureThe Delhi High Court has thrown out a compensation claim related to a man's death after he reportedly fell from a moving train en route fro...
RAC train ticket became waitlisted, passenger had to travel standing; he filed a case against Railways and won Rs 5000 compensationMan booked RAC-43 sleeper class ticket for Rs 399 to travel to village from Anand Vihar, however ticket’s status was changed to waitlist af...
Senior citizen couple was denied full access to their reserved berths due to overcrowding; they pursued the matter against Indian Railways in consumer commission and won Rs 50,000 in damagesFamily bought reservation ticket to travel to Tirupati but due to overcrowding manyunreserved, waiting list and ticketless passengers occup...
IndiGo's next flight plan: Airline targets bigger global push, diaspora traffic through IndiaIndiGo marks twenty years by planning a significant international expansion. The airline will induct new aircraft to connect the global Ind...
Mangalsutra, cash stolen on Rajdhani Express: Consumer Commission orders Railways to pay Rs 80,000; here's whyFor theft of mangalsutra, State Bank of India (SBI) passbook and cash in Rajdhani 3AC coach, North Railways ordered to pay Rs 80,000 compen...
Indian Railways ordered to pay Rs 25,000 after RAC passenger was forced to share blanket, pillow with strangerThe Delhi Consumer Commission ordered Indian Railways to pay Rs 25,000 to a passenger. This passenger received only one blanket while shari...
Absence of train ticket alone cannot defeat railway-accident claim: SCThe Supreme Court ruled that a missing train ticket does not bar compensation for accident victims. This decision strengthens passenger rig...
Five killed as train hits school van, bicycle at Murshidabad level crossing; gateman arrestedAt least five people, including schoolchildren, were killed after a passenger train collided with a school van and a bicycle at a level cro...
Introduce safety announcements on all long-distance trains: Bombay High Court suggests to RailwaysThe Bombay High Court has urged railway authorities to implement public safety announcements on all long-distance trains, detailing station...
IRCTC has stopped paying compensation to passengers for delay in private trains: RTIIRCTC confirmed the discontinuation of the compensation scheme for delayed private trains, effective February 15, 2024. The scheme provided...
Railways told to pay compensation of Rs 60,000 to passenger for 13-hour train delayChennai resident Karthik Mohan, who works as a Deputy Manager at Bosch Limited, filed the complaint against the Southern Railway, stating t...
In a first, rail passengers to be compensated for delays on board IRCTC's Tejas Express trainAn amount of Rs 100 will be paid in case the delay is for over an hour and Rs 250 for delays of over two hours, the IRCTC said ahead of the...
Railways ordered to pay Rs 25,000 compensation to victim of rat-bite in trainThe railways should pay the amount within three months, failing which the compensation would carry nine per cent interest, the forum said i...
If one dies getting on, off train, Railways must pay compensation: Supreme CourtA bench of Justices A K Goel and R F Nariman held that death or injury during boarding or de-boarding a train will be an ‘untoward incident...
New rail law to make it tough to claim compensation in cases of 'untoward' incidentsMore rail passengers die due to falls from trains than collisions or derailments, and a new law is all set to make it much harder to claim ...
- Railways asked to compensate passenger after mob detains train
Railways have to compensate passengers where journey is abandoned due to train being stopped by a crowd and travellers being threatened wit...